Example sentences of "[prep] we [verb] [that] [pron] be " in BNC.

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1 This time last year , most of us believed that we were on the threshold of a new era of peace and co-operation in international affairs .
2 ‘ None of us believed that it was right , sensible , logical or professional to split up the company , ’ says Bill Toner .
3 Most of us know that it is in our best interests to play it — we 've never been taught the lines , but we soon catch on to what we 're supposed to say .
4 The rest of us said that it was different , exciting and a chance to get to know each other better .
5 It was in the nature of a goodwill invitation , nothing more , none of us realising that he was the one man in Punta Arenas who had some idea of why an old wooden-walled East Indiaman , built like a frigate , should have been reconditioned and brought south by the Argentine Navy during the war .
6 Most of us believe that we are here to do the greatest good for the greatest number of people .
7 They are counter-intuitive and many of us feel that they are more disagreeable than the disease of indeterminacy they were invented to cure .
8 Well I think that most of us feel that it 's absolutely up to you , the individuals whether they keep any of this or not .
9 In welcoming the release of Mr. Waite and Mr. Sutherland , may I express the hope that none of us forget that there are still more hostages whom we wish to see speedily returned to their homes .
10 Not only would such a concept detract from the value of human existence , I feel it would also be extremely conceited of us to think that we are all there is .
11 Neither of us mentioned it : it would have been intolerable for either of us to accept that he was losing his grip .
12 The table that 's before us indicates that there are about sixteen hundred dwellings within the area defined by ten miles .
13 Leftfield go all New Yorky on us to demonstrate that there are more shades to their colour than first meets the eye , but really it 's the pair of Zoom mixes that hold the trump cards .
14 If , therefore , it is difficult at this stage for us to establish with any certainty general patterns of cause and effect between ‘ industrialization ’ and the relatively autonomous conjugal family , it may be possible for us to argue that there is at least a degree of fit , a congruence , between these two elements .
15 We 're we are part of the that process and it 's it 's sometimes encouraging for us to remember that there are small denominations , small groups like us around the world who are struggling to make their Christian witness real in their particular context .
16 However , it has been so dramatic that I think it would be difficult for us to say that it was due to anything but the dietary changes , especially in view of the double-blind trial . ’
17 They are really not similar enough , either to each other or to Knossos , for us to assume that they were copied from the Knossos Labyrinth as a model .
18 ‘ It is unreasonable for us to accept that it is commonplace for people like our Cabinet Ministers to have affairs , and yet to consider that someone like the Prince of Wales is unfit for the job . ’
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